The Boy with the

Topknot
By Sathnam Sanghera

The Boy with the Topknot activities – aligned with

KS3 English objectives
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The Boy with the Topknot activities

Reading

In this unit, pupils will learn about developing an appreciation and

love of reading and about independently reading increasingly
challenging material.

KS3 Aims PowerPoint Steps Activity

Understanding increasingly challenging texts through:

• making inferences Steps 2 & 3 Reading for explicit

and referring to and implicit meanings
evidence in the text in the extract

Supporting answers
with evidence from
the extract
• knowing the Steps 3 Reading for explicit
purpose, audience for and implicit meanings
and context of the in the extract
writing and drawing
on this knowledge to Supporting answers
support with evidence from
comprehension the extract
• checking their Step 4 Comparing content
understanding to of video with the
make sure that what written extract
they have read
makes sense Synthesising
information
Reaching new
understandings
Reading critically through:
• knowing how Steps 3 & 5 Reading to
language, including understand the use of
figurative language, literary devices in the
vocabulary choice, extract
grammar, text
structure and Reading to
organisational understand explicit
features, presents and implicit meanings
meaning in the extract

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The Boy with the Topknot activities

• studying setting, Step 1 Reading to

plot, and understand the use of
characterisation, and literary devices in the
the effects of these Steps 3 & 5 extract

Reading to
Step 6 understand the use of
literary devices in the
extract

Reflecting on the use

of literary devices in
the extract